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In the 1970s, when Claude Lanzmann was collecting material for his masterpiece, Shoah, he conducted a set of interviews that didn’t quite fit with the rest—with ex-Judenrat elder Benjamin Murmelstein. Forty years later, Lanzmann, now a hale 87, brings Murmelstein’s testimony to light, along with questions about Jewish memory and morality, in his new documentary The Last of […]

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Some parodies exist solely because it’s funny to mash up two disparate genres. Take, for instance, YouTube videos such as Ten Things I Hate about Commandments (Bible stories + high-school movies), and the Fiddler on the Roof/You Got Served trailer (1800s Jewish ghetto/2000s African-American ghetto). In a new Youtube video, the first scene of The Godfather is dubbed into Yiddish. (Watch it here–and don’t worry, there are English subtitles.) […]

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Gustav Mahler was a brilliant composer, and a bit of a control freak. He liked to be in charge of everything: As a composer, he conducted his own work. As a husband, he forced his wife to stop composing her own music. And, as a Jew, he converted to Catholicism, hoping that it would help his career in pre-WWII anti-Semitic Austria. So it […]

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